HybridVehicle

It's almost unbelievable, but Bharat Forge and KPIT Cummins Infosystems LTD. claim to have developed a hybrid retrofit system that can be easily applied to most vehicles in under six hours, resulting in an increase in fuel efficiency of up to 80 percent. It's so wildly unbelievable, that we just ...

Last month's sales figures show that the overall vehicle market is increasing by leaps and bounds. The total market for April increased almost 20 percent over the same month last year. Hybrid vehicles saw gains again, but the ...

Imagine a police chase in Manhattan where a Ford Fusion Hybrid pulls up behind the criminal followed by a few Priuses, an Escape Hybrid and a couple of Altima hybrids. Now, think of the scenario where the criminal, driving his gas-guzzling Hummer, takes off out of the city limits on a ...

Lanthanides. What are they and why do we care about them? Well, lanthanides are rare-earth metals that are a key ingredient in nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. More specifically, lanthanides make up an entire row on the periodic table which includes 15 elements, some of which are utilized ...

Here in the green car world our ideas and thoughts are slightly skewed sometimes. You see, we think that alternative energy vehicles like hybrids and electrics will be around forever. If we didn't feel this way, we probably wouldn't be ...

United Parcel Service (UPS) has added an additional 200 hybrid delivery vehicles to its fleet of low-emissions and alternative energy vehicles. With this latest addition, UPS now has more than 20,000 green vehicles in its fleet! The new hybrids will join the 50-plus UPS hybrid vehicles already in ...

Automotive News is reporting that all upcoming Mercedes-Benz S-Class models will switch over to hybrid power. The news outlet cites Mercedes dealers as the source of the information, but would not disclose identities. This ...

The numbers are in for Mach sales and hybrids have fared well compared to last year. Hybrid automakers can't heave a sigh of relief quite yet, because sales have fallen short of the overall industry rise compared to a year ago. ...

According to a recent study conducted by JPMorgan, hybrid sales are about to take off. Last year, there were some 480,000 total hybrid vehicles sold around the world, which represents less than one percent of global sales. By 2020, though, JPMorgan predicts that 11.28 million hybrids will be sold ...

Now that the September vehicle sales numbers are out, some more detailed analysis has been done and the results for hybrid vehicles are decidedly mixed. Overall sales dipped 1.9 percent compared to September 2005, while hybrid vehicles climbed 21.5 percent year to year. A total of 23,301 hybrids ...